“In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.” PoliticalSeriousSummerSpringChinaDisturbance Author:Li Peng
“This is like the gun you shoot at the beginning of the race or the bell that you ring at the beginning of a classroom discussion, .. This is the president saying, 'OK, we're going to get serious about this now. Congress is going to work on it. I'm going to put my political capital behind it.' .” PoliticalPresidentRaceBehindsSeriousGunCongressRingsDiscussionClassroomBellsGoing To WorkSaying Ok Author:Tamar Jacoby
“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.” LifeMatterPoliticalPoliticsLeftSeriousPoliticianConclusionSeriousnessFunny PoliticalPoliticians And PoliticsPolitics FunnyFunny Politician Author:Charles de Gaulle
“No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.” PoliticalBeliefNationsToo MuchSeriousCommittedNationalismHistorian Author:Eric Hobsbawm
“Any play that makes an audience think out of the box, that makes connections to life and names our pain and by doing so makes our pain subject to thinking and the process of understanding, is doing something inherently political. By promoting understanding, by putting experience in context, by making connections between the normal and the rational, theatre is an act of anti-terrorism. It stimulates courage and a survival spirit. In that sense of political, there are a lot of serious plays doing their work in the world.” ThinkingWorldPlayPainPoliticalSpiritNamesProcessUnderstandingAudienceSubjectsSeriousNormalSurvivalConnectionsBoxesTerrorismTheatreRationalPromotingAnti Terrorism Author:John Lahr
“We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.” ThinkingWayGivingYearsBelieveMeanPoliticalSocialTermPartyEconomicSeriousConflictYears AgoCrisisDevelopingRevolutionaryCapitalistSocialistStagnationSocialist Party Author:Anthony Crosland
“Serious research and development efforts are required to produce technologies, strategies, organizations, and trained personnel who can go into failed states, work with our allies and friends, and promote the political and economic reforms that will meet popular needs and reduce the sources of terrorism and conflict.” NeedsStatesPoliticalEffortTechnologyEconomicProduceSeriousSourceDevelopmentConflictResearchOrganizationStrategyTerrorismReformAlliesPersonnelResearch And DevelopmentEconomic Reforms Author:Wesley Clark
“How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan.” PeopleYearsEndsLastsPoliticalPartyPlansSeriousFinalsUpsetReflectingProposeGoverningBindingProgrammesDead EndsReferendums Author:Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
“I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce.” PoliticalLossSeriousConsequence Author:Ugo Cavallero
“Politics is the only serious. subject that men think themselves qualified to act upon without any previous education or instruction whatever. If it happened to be astronomy, or botany, or medicine, or law, he would never be allowed to work in any of these arts, or to take a decisive part in the history of any one of these sciences without having, at least, acquired: the A B C of it; but the awful fact of politics is that we do not take the trouble seriously to understand the political situation.” IfsThinkingMenArtFactsLawPoliticalSituationHappenedTroubleSubjectsSeriousElectionMedicineAstronomyAwfulInstructionQualifiedElection DayBotanySerious Subjects Author:Hugh Price Hughes
“Self-censorship as a result of intimidation or social pressures, sometimes referred to as "political correctness", constitutes a serious obstacle to the proper functioning of democracy. It is important to hear the views of all persons,including the "silent majority", and to give heed to the weaker voices.” GivingPersonsImportantSelfSometimesPoliticalSocialVoiceResultsViewsDemocracySeriousPressureMajoritySilentIncludingObstaclesCensorshipPolitical CorrectnessHeedCorrectnessIntimidationSocial PressureSelf CensorshipSilent Majority Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“No country has a perfect report card. While some countries have strong points in specific areas, they may have serious lacunae in other areas. For instance, some countries have made enormous progress on civil and political rights, but lag in the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights.” MayMadeCountryPoliticalStrongSocialPerfectRightsProgressEconomicSeriousAreasEnormousCardsInstanceReportsImplementationLagPolitical RightsReport Cards Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“Like Richard Ellmann on James Joyce, Arnold Rampersad on Ralph Ellison is in a class of its own. His masterful and magisterial book is the most powerful and profound treatment of Ellison's undeniable artistic genius, deep personal flaws, and controversial political evolution. And he reveals an Ellison unbeknownst to all of us. From now on, all serious scholarship on Ellison must begin with Rampersad's instant and inimitable classic in literary biography.” BookPoliticalPowerfulClassSeriousEvolutionGeniusProfoundArtisticClassicInstantTreatmentMost PowerfulFlawsBiographiesScholarshipControversialJoyceArtistic Genius Author:Cornel West